Private Eyes

the dates wrong. That twenty twenty six, idiot, not twenty twenty seven one twenty seven, twenty twenty six. Thank you Jesus Christ. It's been a crazy day. Taped relationships as a Bitch today with Mike and Arena. Kenny. Kenny has been a staple the last four shows or so. He's a little bored, wants to contribute, and I love his contributions. He's Kenny's one of a kind, says what's on his mind, and he's often never wrong. I gotta be honest with you. You know, me and him and Trump are all geminis.

There's something too that I think. So yesterday. Oh by the way, Rosalie made something new that those of you out there can definitely do. It's not hard at all. We've had stuffed mushrooms many times here, which I love. But she made a stuffed auto choke heart. Okay, listen to this. You can go to the store and get a can of auto choke hearts. The bottoms right, no leaves, nothing like that, Just the round disc that's the most tender part of the auto choke. Get him in the can.

It's no problem. Can't get him fresh. You gotta get the whole auto choke. Get him in the can. And then she makes this mixture of bread crumb, olive, oil, garlic. She actually browned a little stage too. She put that in there, some grated cheese and fixed a little. It looked like a little tart, a nice auto truck cart, around two and a half inches wide, and she plopped that stuffing on top baked it for a little bit.

Oh my god, is that good. You pop me in your mouth like it takes two bites and they're gone. It's so delicious. That was a Yesterday's treat in addition to other things. But I had to tell her stop cooking. She made some pasta. But I love fuzially. I haven't had long fewzillion years, and I love fuzially with the

red sauce and regatta. You know, you take the red sauce and then you throw a nice, heaping spoonful of more than a spoonful of regatta on top of your bowl, and you mix it and the sauce almost becomes a pink color. It's more creamy. She made that with sun dried peppers, red peppers, not sun dried tomato. Sun dried red peppers not easy to find. She had to go through Amazon to get him Dynamite dish man. So I'm trying with the diet, but you know, I'm eating little

bits here and there. You know, I said, tonight, Role, I'm having tuna fish. I can't deal with this, and you're killing me. As we're eating dinner, She's like, tomorrow, do you want fried trip rope? I can't hear this, but she loves to create, loves to feed the men in her life. What can I tell you? So yesterday, excuse me, yesterday, christ we talked about this Hungarian model that I took out Monica Zabrita. I couldn't remember her

name yesterday. Today I know it because I went back and looked for her and put her picture on the Patreon page. Yesterday she was something else, and I talked about the whole Chris Rock thing and that she had Chris Rock's baby. Well, I I'm mistaken, because things happened between Chris Rock and Monica Zabrita, and it was a court case, and Chris had to hire a very famous private I named Anthony Pelicano. And let me just give

you up to date about what exactly happened with this case. Eventually, these two reached the settlement, a confidential settlement of Chris Rock and Monica to end this lawsuit about paternity. And it's all because apparently, well I'll get to that in a minute, but Monica was very savvy in how she wanted to trap him. Let's say, so she brought she was pregnant, and she brought this paternity action suit against

Chris Rock. But the DNA show, the DNA test showed that he was not the father of that little daughter that I held in my arms at that dinner that night. I mean, the daughter was darker than a white white Hungarian model. But man, this girl had such a plan. She hacks to plan with a friend of hers. What a dangerous Chit unbelievable. This is nineteen ninety eight. Excuse me, my voice is still not great. This is nineteen ninety eight.

The same time I met her at the Four Seasons hotel where the publisher of the magazine called Perfect Ted, which featured all models who were real, no fake breasts, nothing, completely real. Most of them are from Europe. And norm Zeta was the guy who was the publisher of that magazine. He wanted to be the next Youugh Hefner, but for various reasons, didn't work out. He didn't have the same pinesh and style as Hefner did not many guys do

when it comes to starting your own magazine. But I think Perfect Ted had about a year or two on the newsstands. The girls were gorgeous, but it wasn't like Playboy. The articles weren't great. But Chris Rock met her at the Four Seasons as well as I did, same place, and I wonder if norm Zada got Chris Rock to come to one of those brunches that I went to. But according to Monica Zabrita. She says that Chris Rock attacked her an attempted to force her to perform oral

sex on um. And then a week later, you know how it is with these girls in Hollywood, and they meet a fancy star. A week later, after she says he forced her to go down on him, she went on another day with him, and that's when she says he forced intercourse on her. Now, Chris Rock says he denies those allegations. Back then denied allegations of rape and

other wrongdoings. But lo and behold. Monica Zabrita becomes pregnant and she believed the kid was from Chris Rock, but like I said, the paternity test showed it, it wasn't so. During the paternity proceedings, Rock hires Anthony Pellicano, and what do you know, lo and behold. Few nights later, Zabrita says her house was broken into and pictures of her daughter were taken out of the house or the apartment. That's creepy, but that's nothing with respect to what Anthony

Pelicano did in his career as Hollywood's main fixer. And I'll get to that in a minute. But Rock and Zabrita agree to confidentiality, but then it began to unravel because Chris Rocco's on the Howard Stearns Show, much like I did, and he tells Howard that he was scammed. He says he was approached by a woman saying she was a big fan, and he took her upstairs to her room. Obviously, he says he forgot to wear a condom.

I don't believe that, and he stays he claims a Nigerian guy got her pregnant and it was all a setup. I never saw a Nigerian man next to her, but I can completely understand this could be the case. I mean, these chicks come here from overseas with definite plans on how to trap a rich, rich movie star. Wouldn't be the first time. So Pelicano is going to work for

Chris Rock. And Rock goes on the stand during this case and he admitted to hiring Pelicano to investigate this model, and that disclosure violated the confidentiality agreement between her and him, so she sued him. She sued Pelicano. She sued Pacific Bell Telephone Company and some police officials for breach of written contract. Intrusion, invasion of privacy, wire tapping, trespass, and

some other shit. But this complaint was very salacious. For instance, after Rock allegedly raped her, Monica was savvy enough to keep a kleenex of Chris Rock's seamen in a tissue in her freezer or refrigerator to keep it fresh. You know, I mean, that's just that's low down dirty ball right there. But the lawsuit also raised some doubts about some of

those tests. A blood test from Rock and her was said to have been performed under peculiar circumstances quote unquote, and that an attorney prematurely jumped out of a car to deliver the blood samples to the lab, and that destroyed the chain of control and authenticity. It's just so many weird things happen here. Did he fucker? Of course he did? Is it his baby? Apparently not? The DNA test says no, it's the Nigerians. But don't tell me these two didn't cook up a plan to ensnare Chris Rock.

Of course they did. So there was some discus rush between Pelicano and Chris Rock, and they got pretty down and dirty in those discussions. Chris Rock admitted that he used the condom that it could have contained his DNA. Of course it containered DNA. Bro't give her a pre come, of course it did, if he even used one. He was still married to his wife Day was separated at that time for a brief separation. But the fact that she kept Kleanex with his seemen in the freezer on

a tissue. Wow. So Rock was arguing that this case should be dismissed because it was filed too late, blah blah blah, beyond the statue of limitations. So a judge ended up throwing out twelve of the thirteen claims on summary judgment, but allowed the breach of contract action to survive. So Rock was never charged with a crime, and he still denies that a rape never occurred. But look, I'm looking. I'm reading this story, and I forgot this is the way it went. I haven't read about this for years.

But man, did I dodge a bullet or what what I mean? Obviously, when I met her and asked to take her out, we have a little hanky panky in the car, and you know, it was all a green light until she brought the baby to dinner and then I called her one more time after that, and she told me she had to go back to Hungary to hire a nanny for that baby. She would only have a Hungarian nanny. I remember I was in the bathtub.

I rarely take a bath, but I remember I was in the bathtub and I called her for another date and she said, I gotta call you when I get back. And I never called her again. So much for her saying I stalked her, But that's as far as it went. But I mean, I had a picture of my refrigerator. I mean I was a single guy back then. Obviously all my friends were like, who the fuck is this? Oh, that's a shick monica. She's a model from Hungary. She's insane. Yeah,

I didn't know how insane she was. But Chris Rock has said repeatedly that he was hustled by some Nigerian guy who already got her pregnant and then pushed Rock to be with her. So it looks to me like the plan was for her the fuck Chris Rock and say she's pregnant even though she already was from the Nigerian and make believe it's Chris's baby, hoping that he'd say, oh shit, it's my baby, I'll pay you the money,

blah blah blah. But he fought, you know, And I thought, I thought her lying to Howard sterned that I was stalking her was the worst thing this girl could do. But no, you see what's out there fellas unbelievable, and she was beautiful and sexy enough that any guy would do anything to be with her, and not for nothing. When I went to those brunches, there was a table of like fourteen fifteen of these models, and Norm would

throw out lobster tails and shrimp and carving stations. It was like a small wedding, and he would say, pick whoever you on, go have a ball, talk to of you on like he was like a pimp. Not that we you pay him, but he presented those girls like a bounty to men. I remember Vin diesel into one of those lunches. Never saw Chris Rock there, but yeah,

that's the kind of shit that goes on. So I really haven't spoken much about Anthony Pelicano over the years on this show, but he was a very famous and in demand private eye, extreme fixer to the stars who I knew pretty well back in the day. We talked on the phone a lot. We did some talk shows together. One talk show I think it was Jenny Jones. He approached me once about maybe somehow working together because, as he said to me, something like, you know, everybody throw

my name around. If anybody Hollywood, powells or having a problem, I'll make the troubles disappear in a pinch. I've been doing this since President Johnson was in office. In fact, he told me that President Johnson was the president who put recording devices in the White House, not Nixon. So this guy has been around for a long long time. And the way he talks, it's hard to walk away

because he talks like a gum shoe. He talks like he run out of a nineteen forties film more with Humphrey Baulguard and Lauren McColl you know what I mean. But he was a well known private eye in Hollywood back in the nineties. The rich and powell will hired

him whenever there was a problem in their lives. And in his heyday, I mean his clients included many many studio executives, lawyers, Chris Rock obviously, Michael Jackson, Don Simpson, the crazy producer who died, But this guy was asked to dig up dirt, cover up scandals, and if need be, intimidate those folks who posed problems to his clientele. And eventually his operation came to light. He was sentenced to fifteen years in federal prison for wire tapping, racketeering, conspiracy, wirefraud.

He came out of jail in twenty nineteen. I'm not sure what he's doing now, but there was a I think there's a documentary on him on Hulu. I feel it's called What's It Cold? I know it's called I looked it up. I want to watch it tonight. It's called Sin Eater, Si n Eater, The Crimes of Anthony Pelican. I want to check that out if it's still streaming. But you know, those of you who don't know him, I don't know what it's like in Hollywood, you may find it difficult to just understand what kind of a

looming figure this guy was. Back It started back in the beginning of the eighties. He came to lad He came to La to help the auto executive John Doloorian on those cocaine distribution charges, and while he was here, he built an all star client roster, Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor, Tom Cruise, Sylvester Stallone, Rose and Barr, Gary Shandling Court, and he loved so many more people and eventually, you know,

seventy eight counts of wire tapping. He ended up spending a lot of years in Terminal Island in California, but he worked with Brad Gray, lot of a list people. But let me tell you how insane some Hollywood heavyweights can get and why a guy like Anthony Pellicanno was very much in demand. Here's a guy who fancies himself like an old school mobster. He loves the term omerta,

which is to stay silent and not talk. This vow of loyalty he took for his clients, and that's the same vow that cost him his freedom because he wouldn't mention any names, and that's why he went away. But I remember one thing he said to me that struck a nerve, and actually it did more than strike a nerve. It made me keep going on my quest to get Michael Jackson. I hate the way it sounds because I grew up loving Michael Jackson. I still love his music.

I feel bad that he's dead. But like you guys know, I was the guy. My page was the page that began to take Michael Jackson down. We broke the sexual molestation story, and Pelicanno, to his credit, fired Michael Jackson

as a client. Michael asked him to help mat with his molestation shit, and Pelicanna said, no, I'm stepping away, and Michael's like why, and he told me because, Aj, there was so many more disgusting truths, even darker shit than that's been alleged in the press about this molestation scandal that I don't I don't have the red conscience to continue to work with him. You know, the guy was offered a half a million dollars to tell his story by a tabloid. He said no. So he is

an old school guy. He did need the money. He was in jail at the time. A tabloid offered it to him. He said no. But uh man, he did his part to help a lot of people get out of trouble, keep their heads above water, and take down other folks who were trying to take down their careers. I mean, at one point, when the Feds raided his offices, they found he had an office on Sunset Boulevard, a big, big building where a lot of talent agents there, and big,

big big building on Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills. But when they confiscated stuff from his office, they found, you know, c four hand grenades locked in evidence safes. I mean, just crazy shit. I don't know what kind of celebrities would need that kind of firepower, but that's the kind of stuff Pellicano had. The big story that made him really stand out was back in the early two thousands,

during that FBI raid. There was an incident that occurred about a reporter from the La Times named Anita Bush and she was writing something not too good about Steven Sagal, and one day she walked to it. She was writing about Steven Sagall's mafia's eyes, which, believe me, they're true. I worked for Segal and I worked for him for his producer friend Jules Nasso, who was a Gambino associate. I made a movie with them called Not Even the Trees,

which went to the cann Film Festival. It's a terrible movie, but it went there. And Jewels was on set every day, and Cigal was there every day. That's those are the two guys who told me when I needed a when they were gonna hire a girl, I played a drug dealing pimp kind of thing, and I needed a hot shick to be my girlfriend. I went in the office one day. They led out three headshots of three different chicks. Picked the girl you want? I said, what about ca?

There's no casting director, No, no, who do you want to Which one of these girls you want to be with? That's how blatant was. I'm like, oh, if it's gonna be that way, I want the one in the middle. She was the hottest one. They go, she's hired, and then I ended up having a fling with her. I mean, that's how dirty Hollywood can get at. I didn't care.

It was a shitty movie, but yeah, it's crazy. So Anita Bush is walking to a car leaving the La Times and she finds a bullet hole through a windshield and a dead fish with a rose in its mouth. The words stop on a cardboard sign underneath the fish.

All because she was working on Cigal's Mafia Tais and she also had written about Michael Ovitz, the Disney exact who was once Anthony Pellocanno's client, so he had methods that were not too uh not to not too nice, but things get pretty rough in Hollywood, just crazy stuff. But uh, this guy, I wish I could talk to him. Now. I gotta kind of track him down and know where he's at. But this is the kind of stuff like I call myself a fixer sometimes about the stuff I

did for celebrities. Nothing to this extent, obviously, but can you imagine you know, you want your daughters to get involved in his business. I've been telling you, folks for a while, do not put your kids in Hollywood. I don't think any of you will, judging from all the stories we reread and rumors we hear. It's disgusting. But yeah, don't let your kids get involved in Hollywood. Do not do that, because there's people like this out there and

it's disgusting. But that's the kind of guy Pelicanna was. Maybe one day I'll be able to talk to him before he dies. He must be eighty years old this point in the late seventies, I don't even know. But from that story we go to a very different, sordid affair concerning Hollywood. This is this makes me sick. The story. It concerns the two brothers who had been the IT brothers, the IT directors of the moment, Josh and Benny Safti. These guys have made some movies that are up for

rewards starring big stars. They made big names for themselves recently in the last five years or so, and they were directing movies together for a while. Now they're doing movies on their own. And there's a reason for the split. So the breakup between these two, it's been reported, happened because of well, some Hollywood and sires are saying that one brother don't know who went full maga and that created tensions with the other brother. That could be true,

who knows. There's also some other speculation of why they split. Josh has nabbed four OSCAR nominations for directing Marty Supreme. Benny came up empty handed for his directing The Smashing Machine with Dwayne the Rock Johnson, which is a shit movie. Don't ever see it. But the root of the fight, the root of the quarrel comes from a much darker incident that happened back in twenty seventeen, the old me

Too era, Remember something called good Time. Benny cut ties with his brother back in twenty twenty three, after he learned exactly what went down in twenty seventeen. So was this seventeen year old girl who was cast to play a prostitute in this crime thriller, and once on set, this girl was put into a scene that involved nudity

and simulated sex with an actor named Buddy Duress. This happened in New York and as part of their verite style, the Safdies have always been known for using a mix of a real actors that star as the film's lead and also some other non actors who just seem authentic right. Some of the directors do that as well, But this particular movie starred Robert Pattinson and this other actor, Buddy Duress, was the person who wasn't an actor but had just been released from prison. I'd went to jail a bunch

of times, going back to two thousand and nine. Drug chargers, weapons violations, fencing, stolen property, steal a car. I mean, he's a bad guy. So Josh is watching the action unfold on his monitor and Benny's standing in the corner holding the boom mic and this actor Buddy Duress, who was high as a kite at the time, he pulls down his pants and found this seventeen year old girl, exposed himself and asked the girl if he could stick it in, and the cameras are rolling by the way.

Thank god, this guy duress out of a heroin overdose two years ago or three years ago November. Sorry about the throat, damn it. So it's a bad dude. You don't need guys like this on a movie set. Let alone with a seventeen year old girl in a nude scene. She's under age, for Christ's sake. So Josh is watching the action unfold. Benny's in the corner with the boon MIC.

Any director who had seen this kind of shit would have yelled, cut, stopped the scene, but Josh Saftie let it go on, and Benny couldn't say shit, he's not you know, he's holding the boom mic. So Josh becomes aware of the girl's age that day of production, which I don't believe, and obviously the girls traumatized and wants to leave. But you know, using a minor for nudity and a sex scene is not an industry norm. Let's put it that way. It's not even a screen actor's guilt.

It goes against the rules. There's there's there's stipulations about work conditions not to be detrimental to the health, morals and safety of a minor. And anybody who's familiar with movies knows is that there's a there's a chain of events that say this director's recklessness. It's just you can't put up with it. So they did take the scene out before the movie made its premiere at the can Film Festival. But these are the kind of people that are working in Hollowen. Now Here is a name that

is also involved in this. And I'll tell you what you know, my spidy sense, if you remember back, I don't know five years ago. You know Emily Radikowski, the hot shit sexy model. You've seen her. She's always like you, with her tits out, bikinis, she's everywhere. She was with and had a baby with this guy named Sebastian Bear McLeod mclark. I didn't like him when I saw his face because I had a heart on for Emily Redikowski.

She's I think she's sexy as hell. I know she's an asshole, but just looks why she's so sexy And this guy was like a dope. And I remember saying on the show, what is she seeing this asshole? He said, I could tell the guy's a bad guy just by looking at him. Obviously he is because Sebastian Bear McClard after he was done with well, no, he was still with Emily Redikowski then has a fleeing with this seventeen

year old actress who was in the nude scene. And that's why Emily Redikowski filed to get away and wanted a custody of son. What a piece of shit, a seventeen year old girl. He's got a knockout tip top model as his girl and a baby, but he wants

the seventeen year old on the movie set. And they say that he did this during the movie Uncut Gem starring Adam Sandler, directed by the Safties, and he had this extra mamteral affair with this cast member and the brothers were made aware of his behavior back in twenty twenty two, and that's when Benny Saftie decided to walk away from his other brother. And you know, Josh blamed Baron McClard for hiring the miner in the first place. He probably did it because she looked hot and he

wanted to be with her. Baron McLeod pushes back and says he wasn't the producer responsible for insuring her age. So it's all this finger pointing bullshit. Mean, while this girl's traumatized. Although I'm not sure why she'd have an affair with Sebastian they call him Sebo. Why she'd be with Sebo? I have no idea. But now this one brother apparently has developed a moral conscious and won't work

with the other brother. Just very strange. I used to wonder why they hit the They hit the spot so quickly, and they were the it They were the it team for it seemed like overnight they were the two guys that had to direct your movie. Now I know why. I mean, I could tell these guys they probably don't play by the rules obviously, and they seem pretty dirty

in the way they deal with casting, et cetera. Also, they had this project with Adam Sandler was going to be on Netflix, but it got canned when they went their separate ways. Josh did Marty Supreme with Timothy Challamette and Betty did his Mastery Machine with The Rock. But there's this situation that I find really weird. He's on set with Shalomet, this drug addict, the guy that died to the criminal, and he's on the set of Marty Supreme and Timothy Chalom had a problem with him being

there and he threatened the kid. He said to the kid, I was just in jail for thirty years. You really don't want to fuck with me. You don't want to see me angry. Who needs to hear this kind of shit making a movie? Right? It's insane, But it just goes to show you the Academy these guys are rough for awards. It just goes to show you the Academy has such a short memory when it comes to the behavior on set of these movies directed by people they

consider best directors. It's disgusting. It's very troubling. They're being honored and they'll continue to be honored because they do good work. But you know, you can't have a non union You can't hire non union kids off Instagram to do nude scenes when they're underage and hope. Matter of fact, there was another kid they had on a rooftop after one o'clock in the morning, an underaged kid, which is against the law, and the kid was nervous, he wanted to go home, he was asking for his mother, and

they kept shooting. I'm sure the parents didn't care because the kid was making money. They're probably one of those sets of parents, but really shitty stuff. But I mean, this has been going on in Hollywood forever. The famous Louis mau he directed Pretty Baby with Brooke Shields. Brookshield was ten years old and the lead actor in that movie was Keith Carradine who was thirty, and he was naked under the sheets and Brooke Shields was ten years old at the time. And I remember reading a story

where he said to Brooks, she was very nervous. He said, don't worry, it's only make believe. It's easy for him to say at thirty years old, but a ten year old kid seeing a man naked and under the sheets horrible, just horrible. But those are two quick stories about how sordid Hollywood can be, and I think those kinds of stories are required. If any of you are thinking, even mulling over the idea of any of your children getting anywhere near this town, think hard and long, and don't

do it. It ain't worth it. They'll either be raped, or be on drugs, or just have horrible trauma the rest of their lives. Even though there are many kids who get in Hollywood and continue to be great and seem pretty well put together as grown ups. But I don't know, man, Don't do that to your flesh and blood. It's just not worth it. And finally, yesterday I was talking about the best Frank Sinatra songs. A bunch of

you gave me your favorite list of top five. All of you are right, because Frank has at least fifty songs I love that could be top five. And I did forget one that I love very much. And Alexis Boehm, who lives out in Norway, one of my earliest patrons. I want to say, by the way, she lost her pug, Jimbo. Jimbo was adorable. You might have seen him on our Facebook page time and again, just a chunky little pudge out there in Norway running around Frogner Park with his mommy.

And he died. And I saw the post on Facebook. And what can I tell you? Sometimes I feel worse when a dog dies than a person dies. You with me, So Alexia told me, you know what, it was a very good year. I said, oh shit, I forgot that song. I used to sing that to my kids before he went to bed. I sang, the best is yet to come, another great one. I got you out of my skin. But I sang it was a very good year. And I remember this is when Frank sang that song. Was

nineteen sixty five. Frank's career, he just turned fifty, and his career was on the skids. You know. He was like MySpace and suddenly all the kids would go on to Facebook. It was that kind of thing, right. It's a good analogy, and rock and roll had become the dominant form of American pop music. It wasn't the standard sung by Tony and Frank and Perry Como and Jerry Vale and all

those guys, Angle Bert, Tom Jones. It was different. So Frank is in his car, he's listening to the radio and up comes a song sang by the group called the Kingston Trio, and this singing it was a very good year. And the kid that was singing it was twenty some years old. His name was Bob Shane. And Frank is listening to this song small Town Girls and soft Summer Nights. When I was seventeen. You know, blue blooded girls of independent means. It's just a beautiful song.

And as the guy goes older, his tastes mature and the woman become more sophisticated, And in that final verse of the song, where he's in the autumn of his years, he can finally appreciate the fruits of a life well lived. In that final verse, from the brig to the dregs, it poured sweet and clear. It was a very good year. And Frank gets out of his car and calls his manager and he says, I gotta sing that song. This kid's too young. He doesn't understand what it is to

live a life. I got to record this song so because he understood the lyrics so well on an intimate level, and knew how to convey the mixture of nostalgia and melancholy and getting your heart busted up and stepped on it trampled. He knew all of it. So he records the song on his album called September of My Years, one of his best albums, and he did it in one take. Gang one take. Frank liked to sing with an orchestra behind him and some people in the room.

He liked an audience, He had his drink, he had his cigarette, and he sang one take when you hear that song on that album, one take that's unheard of, and he followed it up with Strangers in the Night,

not one of my favorite songs. And I know, my dear fred Allison Martino, if she's listening, he's going to hear this because it was her father, Al Martino, who first sang that song, and Frank and he were in the same studio one day and Frank heard that song being sung as he went in the hallway for a break, and he came back in and asked his people, who's singing this song? Well, that's the kid, Al Martino, that's the song. Frank says, hell, hell it is. I want

that song. I'm singing that song. And just like that, because of Frank's stature, they took it away from Al Martino and they gave it to Frank and the rest is history. And that created such a hatred and I'm not gonna say a rivalry, but Al Martino understandably and justifiably couldn't stand what that meant to his career and had Frank thugs would go into juke joints and take that record of Al Martino's out of the jukebox. They would smash the juke but I mean just horrible shit.

His car was key and flat tires. Al Martine had to leave America and perform in Europe because the mob was Frank Scoons were after him. How crazy Hollywood gets. But it was a very good year. Really one of the best songs of all time, if you're mature enough to understand the words and live a life like a real man does. It's a Swan song that all of us don't want to sing, but eventually we all have to. And I can't remember. As a kid, we had this big stereo in the dining room. It was green, big

console that played records. It had a radio. You could ditch all your albums in it. On the left side with my comedy albums George Colin, Richard Pryor, Red Fox. On the right side of my father's albums, some of Rosalie and Jack's albums that he liked, but plenty of Sinatra, Jusepe de Stefano from Naples, Jimmy Rosselli and my father and his brother Larry and his other brother Philly were sitting on the table with their drinks in their hands and their cigarettes on the other hand, and they put

that record on and they didn't say a word. It wasn't the first time they heard it. It wasn't nineteen sixty five. But I was about eight nine years old at the time. That's call it nineteen seventy. And I watched these three men listen to this song with their heads down, eyes closed, and they would tell me when it ended. Aha, played again, played again, and I played again. And I'll never forget

the way these guys appeared. And now I'm older than they were, And Frank's song makes me HARKing back to my life and all the great years I had, and the danger I endured, and the loves I took for granted, and the hearts I trampled and my own heart included stepped on and kicked, and the wonder of a lifetime that just seemed to speed by lack a rocket ship. Listen to that song tonight and ask yourself, men, where the fuck did the time go? What happened? How do

we find ourselves on top of this hill? It's scary, but at least we have a beautiful song to walk out on I'm aj Benz. So that was your daily Unfiltered podcast for July twenty eighth, twenty twenty sixth. I got it right, No I didn't, I said. July from January twenty eighth, twenty twenty says christ what's wrong with me? Let's starting to cry. Sorry, talk to you tomorrow